Where early voting is underway. Lets stay with our main story this hour. Around 1. 4 Million People in South Yorkshire including doncaster, rotherham, barnsley and sheffield havejoined the tier 3 coronavirus alert system. No household mixing is allowed and much of the Hospitality Industry has had to close. Professor susan mickey is a member of the governments Scientific Advisory group for emergencies sage. She explained why she and other scientists had called for a National Circuit breaker lockdown. Five weeks ago on september the zist, five weeks ago on september the 21st, the Scientific Advisory group in emergencies made a decision and published a paper calling on the country or advising the government, i should say, to have an immediate National Circuit breaker of 2 3 weeks, which would allow the transmission rates across the whole country to come down to a level that could then be contained by an improved test, trace and isolate system. That wasnt done and only one of the recommendations that was to work at home if you could was taken up by the government and over the last five weeks, we have seen relentless rising of the transmission and the infection rates, not only in the higher areas, but also in those parts of the country that have relatively low areas. All of them are going up on week on week and it is only a matter of time before they will be on higher tiers for their restrictions, so higher tiers for their restrictions, so this is unfortunately an example where evidence based, incredibly wise and sensible strategy of a planned short term break that would then be lifted and how the situation co ntrolla ble then be lifted and how the situation controllable again was, i am sorry to say, ignored and the situation is now four or five times worse than it was five weeks ago. And the longer you leave it and the higher the rates of transmission, the longer it is going to take to get out of it. It is like a fire. You turn your back on a fire. Even though it has even gotjust small, smouldering fires in some parts of the country, you turn your back on it and just use inadequate measures and the fire carries on and